Video: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Webinar on Illustrative Base Fees for Year One
Businesses heard from civil servants at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) during a recent webinar to provide information following the publication of the first in a series of illustrative base fees for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
The Defra team was keen to reiterate that these are illustrative, not the final figures.
Watch the webinar on-demand on the Defra YouTube channel. For more information and guidance on EPR for packaging, go to GOV.UK.
During the webinar, information was provided on:
- Background to the illustrative base fees published last week
- How this version of the fees was calculated
- Issues being addressed – e.g. glass – and how to get involved
- Relationship with local authority payments
- Links to modulation of fees
- Plans to improve them and issue further iterations from next month
A range of questions from webinar attendees on eligibility, material composition, relationship to Plastics Tax and impact on SMEs were also answered.
The next set of illustrative base fees will be published in September 2024 using producer-reported tonnages from 2023 and Defra-modelled Local Authority costs.
The next deadline for reporting six months of 2024 household packaging data is 1 October 2024 and this data will be used to inform future iterations of illustrative base fees.
Defra confirmed that final fees will be published in September 2025 and explained the importance of eligible companies submitting their data to provide accurate information to inform the final fee rate.
Author
Vicky Robinson
Vicky Robinson is Head of Sustainability and is responsible for leading and co-ordinating AIC's work on sustainability.
